food producer, a natural resources, selling its stake in shale gas to rice energy. they will get $100 million in cash and the remainder of the stock of the energy company waiting to go public. jcpenney, the struggling retailer is expected to continue the positive in-store sales trend as they take back market share from competitors. remember, they had a small gain in october and then a 10% possible sales gain in the month of november, a really pivotal few months were jcpenney. while jcpenney might be turning things around, sears is having a tougher time of it, leaving the coo in a bind on two fronts on the one hand as he struggles with the core business and his hedge fund itself. remember, last week he announced he would be spinning off lands and into a separately traded company where the existing shareholders would get shares in the new venture, but if you look at their core business now that lands end is gone, critics have been saying that he still has a lot of work to do their. the company has had 27 straight orders of declining same-store have prophets not to spe